OTG HID: No umlaut characters, wrong key layout

Hi,

I used my new OTG adapter to hook a real USB keyboard (Fujitsu) to my FP2 (Fairphone Open OS).

That works pretty well (also, mouse works fine, too).

But I miss umlaut characters (a, o, u with two dots above) and the keyboard layout is wrong, seemingly it is US american…

Can I change this somewhere? The android keyboard settings, I thought, only cover the software keyboard over the touch panel? That is correctly in German layout with everything…

Thanks
Hman

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There’s some info on how this can be configured on Lineage in the post linked below. I’m not sure whether stock Android / Fairphone Open works the same way, or whether this is lineage specific, but it’s worth a shot:

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Solved. Obviously I connected the keyboard while the screen was locked. Now I did that with unlocked screen, and a dialog popped up “select your layout”. There I could add German layout, and now umlauts work fine, y and z keys have the correct location, as do all the other keys. Thanks!

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Add’l info: This is the OTG adapter I used:

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